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Yet I do feel as though MSI has done as much as they could to quieten down the card given it runs at 80°C during gaming, which is a good target temperature for the R9 290/390, so there is not much further potential to optimize any fan settings.

We've never tested a Radeon R9 290X 8 GB before this, and AMD is not sampling their reference design, so we're eager to see how the increased memory helps this chip, particularly at 1440p and 4K resolutions with some of the newer memory-hungry games we've added to our bench suite in the past few months.

Since all R9 300 Series cards are rebrands of existing R9 200 Series products, we don't expect any significant power consumption improvements with the R9 390X; these will hopefully come with the Fiji GPU on the Radeon Fury.

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Andrew Brian Evagelou (10:49 AM, April 2, 2016)

Dude, the 390 completely wipes the floor with the 970. The 960 is also outclassed by the 380x AND 380. Futhermore, the 950ti is also completely recked by the 370 and 360x. They've been outdone by AMD after the release of the 3XX line-up of cards. The only edge Nvidia still has is at the high-end. The 980 is admittedly better than the 390x in terms of raw performance but it is also more expensive, making both cards completely even in price/performance. The 980ti certainly outclasses the Fury X, but the air cooled Fury comes in at a about $100 less on average and is not that far behind the 980ti in terms of raw performance, even besting the Nvidia card at higher resolutions in certain shader heavy games like Shadow of Morder and Ryse. The Titan X is still in a league of its own though and that's not about to change any time soon. The only answer AMD has to the Titan X is the dual-gpu monster of a card, the R9 295x2. But for the most part, AMD has blown Nvidia out of the water at the sub $450 price range while Nvidia completely dominates at higher end single GPU cards. Not to mention their thermal/noise/power usage profile is a complete win compared to the AMD cards. So, ultimately Nvidia is not better than AMD. I think they each have their strengths and weaknesses and both card companies put out cards for specific sorts of gamers and you really just ought to get what suits your gaming needs the best. Otherwise, just get and AMD card cause they're better :^)... lol just kidding.

Valandis Stylianou (07:58 PM, March 17, 2016)

does this graphic card has 3D

devmedoo (08:18 PM, August 6, 2015)

Hell yeah!
Nvidia is better anw.

Guest (04:25 AM, July 24, 2015)

Amazon price is incorrectly connected to the 390 and NOT the 390x. Please fix!